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Create and read fast constant databases

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Introduction

speedyb lets you create and read constant databases.

  • fast lookups

  • database cannot be modified

  • database can be shared by multiple processes without using more memory

  • fast startup time

Let’s say you have a dict like this:

d = {
  'Alice': '26 Pine Street',
  'Bob':   '54 Oak Drive'
}

You can write this to a database file: speedyb_writer.dict_to_file(d, ‘my.db’)

Questions

Q: Why not store the dict in a JSON or pickle file and read into a python dict?

A: First, each process that loads the dict would allocate separate memory, while speedyb shares the memory. Second, for a large db the load time can be significant, while with speedyb it is essentially instant.

Q: How does speedyb compare to Berkeley DB, LevelDB, etc?

A: It is significantly faster because it’s constant.

Installation

Checkout the source and run python setup.py install.

Using speedyb

Creating a DB

import speedyb_writer
d = { ... } # data to store
speedyb_writer.dict_to_file(d, 'new.db')

This creates a new database file containing d. It may be slow. File creation time goes up linearly with number of keys in d.

Reading a DB

from speedyb_reader import speedyb_reader
db = speedyb_reader('tiny.tmp') # open file
res = db.get('Alice') # lookup a key

If the key is not present, res is None.

$Id: README.rst,v 1.2 2012-06-04 04:59:31 asher Exp $

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